Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama. — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater. — Luchino Visconti Copy Share Image
If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama. — Jaime Winstone Copy Share Image
“He holds his hands up to keep the Reapers from advancing. I forgot Zack's flair for the melodramatic. ~Exposing ELE” — Courtney Nuckels Copy Share Image
I love the flamboyance, the melodrama, the bloody theatre of Russian history. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
“Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter. Melodrama is not such a strategist.… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
If I had to say the secret recipe for acting melodrama, I think it comes from myself in real life. I have… — Song Joong-ki Copy Share Image
Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I regard the 'Descendants' as a melodrama, and all scenes have been the trappings to increase the element of romance, I thought.… — Song Joong-ki Copy Share Image
ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
“Try to avoid falseness and strain. Write what you really know about. Make it new. Don’t invent melodrama for the sake of… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
It's been really important to me to create moments where there's a breath or moments where there's a laugh or moments where… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis… — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in… — Mark Colvin Copy Share Image
Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If I feel like crying, I'll just cry in a dream. Something I really try not to do in my waking hours.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman.' Because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think… — Bill Condon Copy Share Image
There's a real tension between it being a collaborative art process, which is almost like performance art of yourself, and, as we… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
“A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I chose the American ones, more or less the last five years of the silent era, because those are the ones that… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
“It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
“German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everything: I love my wife! I… — Diana Mauer Copy Share Image
